PERSONNEL: CHANGES OF THE WEEK, Oct. 25, 1954

¶ George Romney, 47, moved up from
executive vice president of American Motors Corp. to president,
succeeding the late George W. Mason (TIME, Oct. 18). Though Mason had
been interested in a possible merger with Studebaker-Packard, one of
Romney's first acts was to announce that "there are no mergers under
way either directly or indirectly." The son of an old Mormon family and
still a Mormon church reader, Romney earned his first money at eleven,
harvesting sugar. He worked his way through Salt Lake City's Latter-day
Saints' College, did the traditional Mormon missionary stint in England
for two years, and...